Mount Sundberg
| Mount Sundberg | ||
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| height | 1288 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Thomson Massif , Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Sundberg is a 1288 m high and pyramid-shaped mountain peak in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It towers over the central part of the Thomson massif in the Aramis Range of the Prince Charles Mountains .
He was first visited in December 1956 by the southern group under the direction of the Australian mountaineer William Gordon Bewsher (1924–2012) as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Australian Nature Conservation Agency (ANCA) named the mountain after Gerald Joseph S. Sundberg (1924–1994) of the Royal Australian Air Force , engine mechanic for the DHC-2 Beaver and DHC-3 Otter aircraft at Mawson Station in Year 1956.
Web links
- Mount Sundberg in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Sundberg on geographic.org (English)